PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
Published on Apr 18, 2015
"His fame does not yet that match of heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard.
But fellow South African André van der Merwe’s phone has hardly stopped ringing in the week since it was announced that he performed the world’s first successful penis transplant.
The urologist and his team at Stellenbosch University provided the organ to a 21-year-old whose penis had been amputated after a botched circumcision three years ago, enabling him to become sexually active and potentially father children.
According to South Africa’s Times newspaper Van der Merwe, 46, is now dubbed “Dr Dick” and has been inundated with requests from Colombia, Russia and countries around the world.” *
